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The city has announced that Richard Llewellyn, an outside hire from the Everett Fire Department in Washington, will be the new chief of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health spent an hour Wednesday afternoon looking back on the past year, honoring a health department employee and a group of comm
COVID vaccine increasingly available without appointments April 22, 2021 GMT LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas counties are increasingly allowing people to walk in to get a coronavirus vaccine without an appointment as interest wanes. In the Lawrence area, mass vaccination clinics at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, which had been immunizing almost 700 people per hour at their peak, are coming to an end next week. They will be replaced next month with five-day-per-week drive-thru clinics that will deliver 200 to 300 vaccinations per day to people at Lawrence Memorial Hospital without being sched...
photo by: Ashley Golledge Malinda Hillebrenner volunteers at Douglas County's COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Not only is an appointment for a COVID vaccine no longer as rare as a winning lottery ticket, but appointments soon won’t be required at all in Douglas County. LMH Health next month will start hosting a five-day per week drive-thru clinic at the hospital that will allow people to get a vaccination without any advance appointment. There is a simple reason vaccinations have gone from lotto to lots of them. “We’re seeing ...
Kansas hospital throws away almost 600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine A vaccination team is now in place to quickly review and refine the process of preventing waste and to prevent errors in the future. March 15, 2021 10:35 GMT A hospital in Kansas was left with no choice but to discard almost 600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine due to a process error. Health officials revealed on Thursday that the Lawrence Memorial Hospital had to throw out 570 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The vaccines came from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health on Wednesday. EU approves Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine Read ...